Book Image

Moodle 1.9 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds: Beginner's Guide

Book Image

Moodle 1.9 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Moodle is a very popular e-learning tool in universities and high schools. But what does it have to offer younger students who want a fun, interesting, interactive, and informative learning experience? Moodle empowers teachers to achieve all this and more and this book will show you how! This book will show complete beginners in Moodle with no technical background how to make the most of its features to enhance the learning and teaching of children aged around 7-14. This is a practical book for teachers, written by a teacher with two decades of practical experience, latterly in using Moodle to motivate younger students. Its aim is to give you some hints and advice on how to get your Moodle courses up and running with useful content that your students will actually want to go and learn from on a regular basis. We will assume that you have an installation of Moodle managed by somebody else, so you are responsible only for creating and delivering course content. Throughout the book we will be building a course from scratch, adaptable for ages 7 to 14 on Rivers and Flooding It could be any topic, as Moodle lends itself to all subjects and ages.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds
Credits
About the author
About the reviewers
Preface

Telling our story through a cartoon animation


We're going to get our class to use an online animation maker to relate their flooding tale. There are several free online cartoon maker web sites. However, the one that we shall use is intuitive to beginners (especially if you are familiar with Windows Movie Maker) and offers a number of templates and soundtracks. Although there is no age limit for the web site, I wouldn't recommend it for pupils under the age of 13 because of the unsuitability of some of the characters. I have had 13 year old students who have made fantastic animations on this site and send me the links in Moodle (as we shall do shortly) with no problems, whatsoever. However, as I mentioned in the previous words of warning, the age limit restriction is a consideration personal to you and your school. I cannot make that decision for you. Look at it yourself and see what you think. While I am working on this book, the site's owners are working on an educational version specifically...